"I certainly hope so. and I bet these animals do these behaviors all the time, just there are not enough people watching to catalogue all of them! did you see that video of the bird fishing? It was spreading bread crumbs by the water's edge to…"

""there are cases where birds bend wires to make tools to unlock cages to get to food, or chimps using machinery or cuttlefish solving mazes...."
It's even more compelling that they perform these tasks outside their natural…"

I keep a lot of very religious friends around because I really enjoy debating topics. As a scientist, I feel it helps keep the mind sharp and lucid regarding understanding the world around us. However, I am always puzzled by other scientists who are religious, very active and strongly religious or even mildly. I feel this world view is untenable, and does not match with the ideas of science, scientific process or a functional and pragmatic way of viewing the world or interacting with the…See More

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I keep a lot of very religious friends around because I really enjoy debating topics. As a scientist, I feel it helps keep the mind sharp and lucid regarding understanding the world around us. However, I am always puzzled by other scientists who are religious, very active and strongly religious or even mildly. I feel this world view is untenable, and does not match with the ideas of science, scientific process or a functional and pragmatic way of viewing the world or interacting with the… Continue